Is this the moment a plane flies over an erupting ‘volcano’?

A woman flying to Melbourne in Australia, was stunned when she gazed out of the window during her flight.
For, instead of catching sight of white puffy clouds and blue skies, she was greeted to a scene from a horror film.
Penny Bowman snapped the nightmare scene, which appeared to show black smoke billowing and molten lava erupting from a volcano, just yards from her seat.
But is this eery picture, which appears to fly above a volcanic scene, really all it seems?
The shocking picture was taken as her plane flew over a city in Australia.
Bur rather than a volcano, it was just the sunset... read more

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